Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-12
THE CRY OF FRANCE.
GENERAL CLAMOR FOR BOULANGkR'S
RETURN
The h-Hinisters Latest Bid for PoPplariy-Ihe
League Growing Rapidly in NlmbeH-A Growl
From the Bsar-Tslk Of Fralc0-Ras-
sian Alliance.

PARIS, August ll.-General BOulanger
has sent telegram Of coincidence to Mad
anne KatkotT on the death of her husband
He added that his military duties prevent.
ed him from attending NJ. Katkoff's
funeral
The action Of General BOulanger in ten
dering his condolences to Nine. Katkotf
has greatly increased the enthusiasm of
the French Patriotic League for his return
to power, and the enemies of the COM
mander of the Thirteenth Corps unhesi-
tatingly assert that he waited until the
League had rendered its sympathy before
Offering his own, in order to score another
point in the game he is playing, with the
popularity of the masses as the stakes.
The Patriotic League is powerful organ
izatiOn and BOulanger ia its idol Whether
the idol will ever call upon his worshipers
to follow him across the German border
remains TO be seen.
The Bounlanger-Ferry affair has ceased
to he a live topic in social, political and
official circles, but the interest in the Incl
dent has not died out among members of
the League who believe that Ferry was
afraid to meet Boulanger, and by refusing
TO do 20 has forfeited the respect OF all pa
triOtic FreuChmen. 1t il contendrd BY
them that such men rs Ferry do more to
belittle France in the eyes Of Germany
thon any one can possibly imagine, and
the assertion Is commonly put forth that
France will never again be treated with
proper respect by Germany until Boulanger
is recalled to the WaI Office with minis
try OF his own choosing.
The resignation of General Faidherbe
from the League, owing, as be alleged, to
the recently changed attitude of the or
ganization, has created sensation in
Paris. The Patriotic League being dis
tinctively an anti-German organization, it
is not easy to see in what respect any re-
cent action of that brotherhood could have
offended any one whose allegiance to the
Reyanche party was taken, and the nat
ural inference is that General Faidherbe
has been induced 10 modify his anti Ger
man views by some pressure not apparent
tc the public or else has made the discOv-
cry without having the fact pointed out to
him that he is not 80 strongly opposed to
Germans and Germany rs he had believed
himself to be.
One of the reasons alleged for his resIg
nation is that the League committed itself
to the policy advocated for years by NJ.
katon, in sending messages Of coincidence
10 the family of the dead Russian editor,
and following them up with vote of send
lug representatives OF the League to be
present at the funeral; but in what man
ncr this action conflicts with the unswerA-
ing antI-German attitude the League has
occupied from the date OF its organization
TO the present time, is not altogether plain.
The leaders of the League express no fc-
gret at the Generals severance of cOnnec-
tion with the organization and are enroll
lug hundreds of members throught France
daily. Meetings are held nightly and
more activity Is observed in respect Of per
iectng members in the use Of firearms
THAI al ahy PR reViOu4 tune.